Emotion Picture Projector

WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN on Lynd Ward’s Six Novels in Woodcuts

Unblurred Melody

JOSEPH LUZZI on Giacomo Leopardi’s Canti: Poems

Arrested Development

KERRY HOWLEY on the Legacy of Paul Goodman

MICHAEL GREENBERG on love and death in Rockaway

LIZZIE SKURNICK on Lois Duncan’s teen fiction

MELANIE REHAK on drinking sailor tipple

2010: A Year of Reading

ADAM WILSON: Grace Krilanovich’s The Orange Eats Creeps

ZACH BARON: David Vann’s Caribou Island

ADAM KIRSCH: Orhan Pamuk’s The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist

JAMES GIBBONS: Joseph McElroy’s Night Soul and Other Stories

BRANDON STOSUY: Jim Carroll’s The Petting Zoo

DARRELL HARTMAN: Louis Auchincloss’s A Voice from Old New York: A Memoir of My Youth

NATHANIEL RICH: Barry Hannah’s Long, Last, Happy: New and Selected Stories

LAIRD HUNT: Christian Hawkey’s Ventrakl

GERALD HOWARD: Iris Owens’s After Claude

ZACH BARON: Stephen Dixon’s What Is All This? Uncollected Stories

KOLBY YARNELL: Corinne May Botz’s Haunted Houses

ALBERT MOBILIO: Carl Schoonover’s Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century

ISAIAH WILNER: John S. Gilkeson’s Anthropologists and the Rediscovery of America, 1886–1965

PHOEBE CONNELLY: Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz’s Wild Unrest: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Making of “The Yellow Wallpaper”

ERIC ORMSBY: C. P. Cavafy’s Selected Prose Works

ALEXANDER PROVAN: Kevin Kelly’s What Technology Wants

KIM PHILLIPS-FEIN: David Courtwright’s No Right Turn: Conservative Politics in a Liberal America, Dominic Sandbrook’s Mad as Hell: The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Populist Right, Michael Reagan’s The New Reagan Revolution: How Ronald Reagan’s Principles Can Restore America’s Greatness Today, and J. R. Dunn’s Death by Liberalism: The Fatal Outcome of Well-Meaning Liberal Policies

ARAM ROSTON: Tamara Chalabi’s Late for Tea at the Deer Palace: The Lost Dreams of My Iraqi Family

ED PARK: The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th Edition

DOUGLAS WOLK: Adam Levin’s The Instructions

VIVIAN GORNICK: Saul Bellow’s Letters

JENNA SAUERS: Over the Top: Fifty Years of Fantasy Gifts from the Neiman Marcus Christmas Book

REIHAN SALAM: Amar Bhidé‘s A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy

FELIX SALMON: Matt Taibbi‘s Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

ROBERT WESTBROOK: Daniel T. Rodgers‘s Age of Fracture

KATHERINE MAHER: Nick Cullather‘s The Hungry World: America’s Cold War Battle Against Poverty in Asia

GEORGE SCIALABBA: Søren Kierkegaard‘s The Present Age: On the Death of Rebellion

GEORGE DUCKER: Doug Merlino‘s The Hustle: One Team and Ten Lives in Black and White

TRINIE DALTON: Correspondence Course: An Epistolary History of Carolee Schneemann and Her Circle